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DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:43 PM Oct 2020

If you had a megaphone and saw a small sidewalk rally for Trump in the Bay Area, what would you say?

This happened to my daughter and me this evening in the car while we were stopped at a redlight in front of a Safeway grocery in the East Bay of the Bay Area. We opened the window and shouted out things like "go Biden", "where's your mask?", "Trump's corrupt" (in response to the megaphoned Trumpist talking about Hunter etc). I also shouted out "you have no money to run commercials which is why you're in front of a Safeway".

It was actually in good fun, and no one (us or them) got too excited. I appreciate this is not exactly Algonquin Round Table discussion points!

We will likely go by the same place tomorrow and are bringing a megaphone with us tomorrow. Any thoughts for something pithy but pungent while we are waiting for the light to turn green?

My daughter was really irritated with the Trumpists, but I said this is quintessential democracy in action. They peaceably gathered, and we peaceably yelled back. Any ideas that can help cement home the importance of real discourse (knowing this is not really it) for an impressionable but very astute teenager would be welcome!

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If you had a megaphone and saw a small sidewalk rally for Trump in the Bay Area, what would you say? (Original Post) DonaldsRump Oct 2020 OP
Trump Lied! Two Hundred Thousand have died! Ohiogal Oct 2020 #1
Good one! DonaldsRump Oct 2020 #3
That's good, too! Ohiogal Oct 2020 #4
"Trump is a malevolent nincompoop" marybourg Oct 2020 #2
"No More Years" "Make the Asshole Go Away (MAGA)" "End the Embarrassment" "Murderer" NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #5
Thanks for all the ideas. DonaldsRump Oct 2020 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author dalton99a Oct 2020 #7
Bye Don. You Gone. LakeArenal Oct 2020 #8
Why waste your time you aren't going to convert one of them nt doc03 Oct 2020 #9
What waste of time? DonaldsRump Oct 2020 #10

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
3. Good one!
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:49 PM
Oct 2020

I suggested to my daughter we could do "Hey, hey, Donnie J. How many folks did you kill today?", borrowing from the Viet Nam chant against LBJ.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
6. Thanks for all the ideas.
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:59 PM
Oct 2020

We have about 20-30 seconds, so we'll come up with our list, in part based on the feedback we get here, and report back to you.

Hope they're not armed! My daughter wanted to drive around again and again, but I said let's do it once and then go home. We have much more important things to still do. For example, my daughter, who is fluent in Spanish, is phone banking to Florida to Latinx voters there, and I think that's far more important than yelling at bunch of privileged Trumpers. However, it's certainly worth 30 seconds, and this time we'll bring the megaphone!

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DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
10. What waste of time?
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 11:13 PM
Oct 2020

We're at a redlight, and it's called counter-protesting. Limited expenditure of time and resources on our way home, so ANY difference we make is a difference.

We couldn't care less about converting the Trumpers. We just want the others around to hear, and we don't want to let this go unchecked, albeit for 30 seconds.

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